After raping and killing his estranged wife, Michael Thompson believed he’d got away with murder.
Furious that Kim Thompson had a new boyfriend and was moving on without him, the 56-year-old former doorman meticulously staged a false ‘suicide’ scene – placing bottles of gin and vodka next to empty packets of painkillers and a photograph from their wedding on her bed – in an attempt to make it seem like she’d taken an overdose and ended it all.
In fact, on the night of her death, Thompson crept downstairs into Kim’s bedroom – the pair were living in the same house but
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